Bowl From A Board Stack Lamination

The bowl base was glued to a waste block which was then mounted to the lathe.

Bowl from a board stack lamination. Bowl from a board band saw method piece. The configuration below was inspired by michael mode and a bowl you can see on his web site www michaelmode. Hot melt glue the base to the sled and run though the planer with a final pass though a drum sander. Shown below are some of my favorite bowls created since 1999.

Stack each layer up successively to go from flat board to 3d bowl in seconds. Bowl from a board. In conventional segmented ring construction many board feet of good wood goes into the trash. Once all the walls were flat and smooth and all the layers were glued on the bowl could be given its final shape.

No matter how the blank is prepared the bowl is cut stacked and glued up in the same way. Stacked ring lamination. Bowl as illustrated in the first picture below. Many years ago at an aaw symposium mike shuler a well known woodturner from santa cruz california demonstrated making a bowl with very little waste.

However the bfab blank can be anything from a raw board to a complex glue up as illustrated below. After shaping and sanding the bowl will be reversed using bowl jaws and. He had advanced a technique based on construction methods used in the salad bowl industry. I use a technique sometimes called bowl from a board in which a single square section.

Prepare a sled for the planer. Stack laminated rings make bowls with huge possibilities in colorful exotic woods. I used my lathe to smooth o.